Performance & Impact

Since 2003, StoryCorps has touched the lives of nearly half a million people.

Our Impact

Data from the StoryCorps Online Listener Survey was collected from nearly 600 listeners between May 2014 – June 2015 and the StoryCorps Radio Listener Survey, conducted for NPR by Lightspeed GMI research in November 2015.

According to the results of these two listener surveys, StoryCorps…

96% Increased understanding of people with a disability or serious illness

94% Increased understanding of Latinos

88% Strongly agree that StoryCorps makes them feel connected to people with different backgrounds

81% Reminded listeners of their shared humanity

78% Led listeners to think of people different from themselves as an important part of society